What Is A Play With Similar Themes To The Novel Wuthering Heights?
October 31st, 2009 by admin | Filed under sports.I am doing a comparative essay between a novel and a play. They need to have similar themes. The novel I have chosen is Wuthering Heights and I am at a lost of a play that has a similar theme. Can any one recommend a famous play that will work well with Wuthering Heights.
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It may not be exactly like Wuthering Heights, but the first play that came to mind is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In both you have “star-crossed” lovers and two families at odds with each other. They could both be considered, in the classical sense, tragedies.
Interesting question. I’ve always thought the NOVEL “The Great Gatsby” is similar enough to “Wuthering Heights” that I’ve actually wondered if it was an inspiration. (girl, poor boy in love, girl can’t marry boy, boy runs away, girl marries rich man, poor boy comes back rich…) I’d really love to be able to ask F. Scott Fitzgerald that. Oh well. Anyway, “The Great Gatsby” is a novel, not a play. I know they’ve made a movie out of it, and I’m pretty sure they’ve probably made a play out of it, too.
As for something that was written specifically as a play, I’m not really an expert in that area.
Edit: There is a play based on it. Info from Wikipedia:
The Great Gatsby, a stage adaptation by Owen Davis, was first performed at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City on Feb 2, 1926 in a production directed by George Cukor with James Rennie and Florence Eldridge.
The Great Gatsby, in a new adaptation by Simon Levy, was performed for the opening of the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 2006. This was billed as “the first authorized stage version of the novel since 1926.”
However, two months earlier, in Brussels, Belgium, The Kunsten Festival des Arts debuted Gatz, a six-hour production by the New York theater company Elevator Repair Service. Set in a ramshackle contemporary office building, Gatz utilized the entire text of Gatsby, at first read by employees at the office building, and eventually acted out by them. “Gatz” premiered in the U.S. on September 21, 2006, at the Walker Art Center (also in Minneapolis) just eleven days after the closing of The Great Gatsby at The Guthrie.